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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
The Indian Green Corn Dance.

The great religious services of the year
is known as the "buskin season." or
green corn dance. Not an Indian eats
. grain of corn until after the celebra-
tion. The men prepare for this by a sys-
tenn of publication, eating of bitter
herbs and taking medicines. This some
times makes them very sick, but is always
rigidly adhered to. On a certain ap-
pointed day all the tribe gather together
in one place, and a sacrifice of thanks
giving is offered to the Great Father in
the burning of fish, the heart of deer
and an ear of corn. Then the dance be-
gins. There are separate dances for the
men and the women, and another dance IS
participated in by all. In this last dance
the inner circle is for the women, the next
rthc men and the outer one forstrangers.
These lines are strictly watched, and any
unwary stranger who in his curiosity
oversteps his line is Immediately be-
sicged until he pays 81 or an equivalent.
The dance is kept up during the entire
day, and at night, tired and happy, all
return to their homes.-hansas City
Ti1nss
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
Chaffed the Wrong Man.

A citizen who had just laid down $500
for span of carriage horses was driving
out Woodward avenue the other day
when he met farmer coming with load
of apples. Desiring to chatf the stranger
a bit, he drew up and inquired:
rs Say, how'll you trade teams?" The
farmer halted, got down from his vehicle,
looked the team over, and slowly re-
piled:
"Wall, by gosh!"
ssWhat's the matter2"
eff you hadn't stopped me, wouldn't
have known the team"
"Did you ever see these horses be-
fore2"
"Did II Why I raised 'em3 Sold
'em both to horse trader in town three
weeks ago. That nigh one has the
heaves, and the other is a cribber and
has two spavins. I'll trade you for S75,
and that's allowing $25 apiece more on
your horses than Igot."
The owner of the 'spankers" hasn't
seen a peaceful hour since that meeting.
Detroit Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
WORDS OF WISDOM.

No one loves the man whom he fears.
Mirth is the best physician for mans
tolls.
Mildness of address and manner is by
no means an unimportant seasoning 70
friendship.
If you are terrible to many, then be-
ware of many.
Not by years, but by disposition, is
wisdom acquired. ~
Wish to be what you are, and con-
slider nothing preferable.
The art of exalting .lowliness and
giving greatness to little things is one OF
the noblest functions of genius.
Let us help the fallen still, though
they never pay us, and let us lend, with
out expecting the usury of gratitude.
One of the original tendencies of the
human mind, fundamental and universal,
is the love of other peoples private al
fairs. -..r
The man to whom virtue is but the
ornament of character, something over
and above, not essential to it, is not yet
q man.
Promise not twice to any man the ser.
vice you may be able to render him; and
be not loquacious if you wish to be es-
teemed for your kindness. q
Never hold any one by the button OF
the hand in order to be heard out, for II
people are unwilling to hear you, you
had better hold your tongue than them.
There are many shifts and changes,
but if we stand still, and bide our time,
the current which was this way to-day,
will set in an opposite direction to:mor-
row; and if it should not do so, what Is
that to us2
The bitterest tears shed over graves are
for words left unsaid and deeds left un-
done. "She never knew how l loved
her," "He never knew what he was TO
me-" II always meant to make more OF
our friendship" Such words are the
poisoned arrows which cruel death shoots
backward at us from the door of the sep.
ulchre, ......-,... ....r
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
NV OWN SHALL COME.

serene hold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;
rave no more gainst time nor fate,
For 10! my own shall come to me.
I stay my haste, I make delays,
For what avails this eager pacel
stand amid the eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my face.
Asleep, awake, by night or day,
The friends seek are seeking me;
Nor wind can drive my bark astray,
Nor change the tide of destiny.
What matter if stand alone?
Iwait with joy the coming years;
Ny heart shall reap where it has sown
And gather up its fruits and tears.
The waters know their own and draw
The brook that springs on yonder height;
80 flows the good with eqaal law
Unto the soul of pure delight.
The flower nodding in the wind
Is ready pighted to the bee;
And, maiden, why that look unkindl
For 10! thy lover seeketh thee.
The stars come nightly to the SKY,
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.
John Burroughs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
Indians Caught in q Trap.

This thing of sending out body of
troops to fight Indians is all bosh, says
Brockway Kinney in the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. They can see a company OF
soldiers miles away. then scatter and
hide and shoot when they can't be seen.
Young Captain Evans, of Fort Phil
Kearney, knew how to fight the red
skins. I remember when Fort Scott was
besieged. That was when the Fort was the
outward frontier post, 175 miles south
west of Kearney. Captain Evans volun-
teered to 90 to the relief on condition
that he should be allowed absolute
management of the expedition. Report
had it that Fort Scott was then SUI
rounded by at least 2, 900 Indians: The
captain rugged out dozen six mule gov
ernment wagons, with canvas covers ar
ranged with ropes overhead so that the
curtains could be rolled up in an instant.
Then he loaded his men into the wagons,
rolled down the curtains and started
with a rider on each mule. These were
the only men in sight of the train, and
the captain gave the orders Tor no one
under cover to show himself until he
sounded the bugIe as signal for the
curtains to be rolled up, when the SOL
diers were to fire upon the enemy. When
the train got in sight of Fort Scott the
the Indians came on them with war
whoop fourishing their bows and toma-
hawks. They were going to capture the
train. Captain Evans let them come un-
til they got within sure killing distance
then his bugle sounded, and the next in
slant volley OF lead was poured into
the redskins. They never waited for
second shot, but turned and fed as fast
as their ponies would carry them, and
that was the end of their siege of Fort
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
Winter Food for Horses.

In the winter, when horses are not
worked any more than is sufficient to
give them healthful exercise, good timo-
thy hay, cut before the blossom has
formed and soon after the head has ap-
peared, will be sufficient to keep them in
good condition. Hay thus made contains
the following nutritive elements per 100
pounds, viz:
Pounds
Albuminoids. %. ................... 962
Carbo-hydrates. s..... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 50.5l
cdV..' ''.'..'........... .................... 900
This gives ratio of / of albuminoids to
Sc of carbo, ,hydrates or the very best for
keeping an animal in perfect health and
condition. When horse is worked mod
erately it consumes a larger portion of
carbon and some nitrogen, but needs less
of this than of the former; hence corn,
being rich in carbohydrates, makes a
very good food for horses doing slow,
heavy work. If the work is rapid, as
driving on the roads, third part of
bran should be added to the corn to fur
nish the needed albuminoids. Care is to
be specially taken to avoid giving dusty
food of any kind in the winter, or keep
ing horses in stables under clover-hay or
loose dusty foor.-Neu York Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
An Odd Royal Favor.

A good and authentic story is told OF a
German Diogenese. When King Freder-
ick William Nv. of Prussia visited the
Rhine Provinces in 1S43 he stopped at
Wesel, in which strongly fortified town,
as the military commander of the post
informed him, the oldest man in the mon
archy was then living. The King went to
see the oldest of his subjects and found
him hale and still hearty veteran OF
1O6, comfortably seated in an old arm.
chair, enjoying his inseparable compan.
iona shot pipe. On the approach OF
the King he rose and advanced q few
steps, but the King made him sit down,
and conversed quite freely with him, the
pipe, however, not leaving the old mans
lips a minute. On parting the King
asked him if he had any wish that he
could crafty. ""No, Your Majesty
was the reply, ~ thank you; l have
every thing I need in this world"
"Have you indeed2 Just think mo-
ment-we mortals generally have some
wish or other" ''Well, sire, on second
thought I might ask favor: My ply
sician insists upon my taking walk
every day on the ramparts. Every time
I pass in front of the powder magazine
the sentry halls me from distance, cry
ing out: Take the pipe out of your
mouth, and as I can advance but slowly,
my pipe goes ont every time. Now it
Your Majesty will be gracious enough to
give the order that the sentry shall let
me smoke my pipe in peace the whole OF
the way, I shall esteem it the greatest
boon of my remaining days" The order
was given, and the old man enjoyed
the privilege for upward of two years,
dying with his pipe in his mouth
american Register. ..r
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Young Pigs.

Young pigs will usually commence to
eat when about three weeks old, and the
more attractive the portion put within
their reach the quicker they will learn to
make full feed. If they can have lit
tie fresh milk at the start so much the
better, but by common consent skim
milk is counted sufficient to meet piggy's
notion. With milk as starter they will
soon take to slop made of mill feed. Iti
not the large hog that pays. but the one
that makes the largest quantity of pork
in the shortest time and on the smallest
amount of food. If pig comes in dur
ing April he has nine months during
which to grow by the end of the year. If
he is we'll bred and from a good stock of
hogs, he should easily be made to weigh
$50 pounds during the nine months of his
life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
Costly ViOlins.

In an office building uptown Victor
Flecher has his quarters. There ne sells
the finest and costliest old violins that
are sold in America. Amateurs who COL
lect old fddles know him well, and enor-
nous prices are paid by them for the in
struments he makes specially of buying
and selling. A man from the far west
bought a Stradivarus for 50, 500 the other
afternoon, and in the course of his pur-
chase played a snatch of tune on it;
His playing was execrable. l mover heard
worse from street musician. remarked
on this to the dealer, and he replied,
smiling: =,
"The costliest violins belong to the
men who have least skill in playing them.
That is one of the curiosities of the trade.
Those who collect violins are rarely
master performers on them. They buy
for the sake of having. Men who can
play the violin do not invest fortunes In
instruments. They buy as good as they
can afford for themselves and do their
best with it." =,
This collection of fddles is, by the
way. a curious craze. knew a man in
Lonlon who had it very badly. He
owned dozens of violins, and had each
put by in special glass case on the wall
of his study along with a little book con-
tanning its history, written by himself,
and the documents that authenticated IL.
He also had a fine collection of bows.
He would start off at an hours notice Tor
Russia or America to get hold of prize
violin, and the only tune he could play
through was "Yankee Doodle" which is
the easiest one to learn on the violin.
Mr.. Joseph w. Drexel owns, l believe,
the finest collection of violins in New
York, which probably means America,
but he is far from a brilliant performer
ON them.-Nen York Ne1cs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19

H. A. Whittemore, New York fancier,
says in the Rural Neao Yorker: The straw
from any grain cut when the grass has
passed the milk stage and is commencing
to harden, but is yet soft enough to mash
between the thumb and the finger, if well
secured and dried without storm, makes
IN excellent fodder to be mixed with any
of the different kinds of grain. We
find that well.cured, not over-ripe oat
straw is equivalent to three quarters of
the value of good Timothy hay for any
kind of stock. There certainly is no
more economical way of disposing of all
our good, bright straw than to run it
through the cutting-bo and to mix with
it ground feed of corn, oats, barley, rye
or some other grain, moistening the whole
with scalding water and leaving it to cool
before using. With the average small
farmer most of the straw is used as fod-
der or litter for stables and sheds, where
it absorbs much of the liquid from the
stables and soon rots, forming good
fertilizer.
Where large quantities of straw are to
be converted into manure, I know of no
better way than to make the young stock
consume it with little grain, and leave
them to produce from it one of the most
economical high-grade fertilizers there
is. Several years ago I wintered four
horses upon wheat straw with little
grain. I mixed it with boiling water
and left it to cook from one feed to
another with good results, giving me a
good quantity of as rich fertilizer as
one could desire. Throughout Western
New York very little straw is allowed to
60 to waste. Nearly all is used rs fod-
der or litter for the different domestic
animals. When straw can be bought at
So ton and hay at $40 ton. there is
more economy in the straw than in the
hay, and fast driving or road-horses fed
upon straw and grain show better coats
and are as enduring as the best hay and
grain-fcd horses, and the manure is
equal to high-grade fertilizer, as it is
fully as rich in nitrogen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
A NIGHT at Masinnis's.

Deputy Coroner Johnston was sworn
and deposed:
"Last night, about II o'clock, Your
Honor, was standing in the door OF the
Morgue when man came through Dun
bar alley. He was bareheaded, his nose
was bleeding, and he was all covered
with sawdust.
'Hellor said, you're in pretty bad
luck. What's the matter with youF
"'Oh, nothin',' he said, I've just been
over to Maginnis's.'
"About three minutes later another
man came into the alley llmplng badly.
One of his eyes were swollen dreadfully
and his neck was bloody.
"sWell,' I asked, what policeman
clubbed you2'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
The Clasp She Wanted.

"Egbert, sweet love, dost think of me
when thou art not by my sidei" asked q
Chicago avenue girl of her best fellow in
n-cent drama tones, as she gave her
new switch jerk to keep it from falling
on his neck. "Why dost thou doubt
me9" he responded tenderly and reproach-
fully, as he grasped his last fifty cents
with the same frmness as that with
which he held the waist of the maiden.
"And you long to be with me"
II wish I could clasp you always in
my arms"
"Clasp me, dear love2"
GAY, my souls own"
Then your wish shall be gratifed, my
darling. I saw the lovel est diamond
bracelet to-day. You can clasp"
But Egbert was no longer there
Minneapolis Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
Great Growth of Carp.

John Beller, living north of Lancaster,
Penn, has pond full Of German carp,
from which he partially drew the water
last week, thus catching number OF
fine fish, some weighing as much as six
pounds. One fish, of which Mr.. Beller
had the opportunity to note the in
crease, grew from two to nine inches in
the course of two months.--Baltin'ore
Anaerican.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
No Great Loss - Still the Style =
A Long Jump-An Afternoon
Call - The Clasp She
Wanted, Etc.

Regular Customer disposed to be
facetious)-"I guess you will have to
trust me for the paper until tomorrow"
Clerk-"O, that's all right, sir"
Customar-"But suppose was to be
killed between now and tomorrow"
Clerk "Well, the loss would not be
much, sir."-PAiladelphia Ne,os.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
A Long Jump.

He-"That was a wonderful jump OF
young Spriggins's just now-cleared five
feet and eight inches"
-"Nothing to what young Wig
gins did last week."
He-"What did he do2'
She-"Dol he did pa out of fifteen
hundred dollars Jumped an agtulIy
high bail-I don't remember the height
exactly-and landed without any diff.
Guilty in-er Toronto wherever that is.
-Harper's Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
Still the STYLE.

An enterprising Yankee, who owned a
large chair manufactory, had occasion
one day to show friend from over the
water through his establishment.
The Englishman, amazed at the guam
tity of chairs that he saw in their various
stages of completion, exclaimed:
"Ow can you hever hexpect to sell so
many chairs2"
"Wall," said the Yankee, 'G guess
settin' down amt gone out of fashion
."-Detroit Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
Disappointed.

II understand you are to have big ag-
ricultural fair up your way"
Eyes; or rather we did intend having
one. but we've been disappointed"
"Disappointed2 In what way2"
"Why, you see, we got the race course
all laid out, and the baseball field up
nice and handy, and everything was
getting on splendidly, when we found
that we had no room for go-as-you-please
pedestrian races.
"You don't say so2"
eyes; and that isn't the worst of it.
There's lot of old fossils who want to
exhibit cattle, vegetables and all that
sort O. stuff. .-Boston Transcript.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
An Afternoon Call.

''Do you write stories, Mrs. Hobson-
love stories9" inquired Bobby, as he
rested his elbows on the lady's knee and
gazed peacefully into her face. .
"Do I write love stories2" repeated
Mrs. Hobson, in surprise. "Why, no,
Bobby, what put that idea into your busy
little brain2" and she turned to Bobby's
mother with an amused smile.
"Pa did," was the dear little fellows
explanation. IL heard him tell ma that
you could beat any woman in town ro-
mancing. ."-New York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-19
A difference in Value.

Motber-"Help help! Our little Josey
has swallowed cent?"
Father-"What fuss! You make as
much noise as if he had swallowed $40
gold piece"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-13
+" Farming Don't Pay"

Farming don't pay" the farmer
who depends on the sunny side of a
straw-stack for warmth to his stock,
and the corners of rail-fence to break
the force of the winds. Farming
don't pay" the farmer who breeds a
hog with bristled back and long tusks
to eat his corn at loss and return him
no income. 1t does not pay him to at
tempt to pasture few miserable,
scraggy sheep on pennyroyal and sor-
rel, and to Craze his pigmy cows on
broom-sedge and dry crab-grass, and yet
expect them TO yield milk and butter.
1t does not pay to raise colts by wean-
ing at birth in order to work the dams
during the day, and feeding them on
insufficient food. " Farming don't
pay" when the rich black liquids flow off
from the barn-yard, and the pillow and
the harrow are rusting in the fields,
while the fences are rotting and the
barns tumbling to pieces. Farming
don't pay" unless rightly conducted,
nor will manufacturing or any kind
of business pay under similar unfavor-
able conditions. The farmer must be
on the alert. He must keep his farm
in order, grade up his stock, feed for
the best results and endeavor to annu-
ally increase his products. Nothing
must be wasted, and everything must
be judiciously adapted to special pur-
poses. Farming does not pay" but
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-13
What Makes a Home.

| never saw a garment too fine for a
man or maid; there was never a chair
too good for cobbler or a cooper to sit
in; never house too fine to shelter
the human head. These elements
about us-the gorgeous sky, the impe-
rial sun-are not too good for the hui
man race. Elegance fits man. But
do we not value these tools of house
keeping a little more than they are
worth, and sometimes mortgage home
for the mahogany we would bring into
it? l would rather eat my dinner off
the head of barrel, or dress after the
fashion of John the Baptist in the will
derness, or sit on a block all my life,
than consume all myself before | get
home, and take so much pains with the
outside that the inside was as hollow as
an empty nut. Beauty is great thing,
but beauty of garments, house and fur
niture is very tawdry ornament COM
pared with domestic love. All the
elegance in the world will not make
home, and l would give more for
spoonful of hearty love than for whole
shiploads of furniture and all the up
holsterers of the world could gather
together.-T. Parker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-13
A Good Experience.

God knows me better than ] know
myself. He knows my gifts and my
powers, my failings and my weaknesses;
what can do, and cannot do. So
desire to be led; to follow him, and /
am quite sure that he will thus enable
me to do a great deal more in ways
which seem to me almost waste in
life, in advancing his cause, than l
could in any other way. l am sure of
that. Intellectually, l am weak; in
scholarship, nothing; in a thousand
things, baby. He knows this, and so
he has led me and greatly blessed me,
who am nobody to be of some use to
my church and fellow-men. How kind,
how good, how compassionate art thou,
O God! o my Father, keep me hum
BILE! Help me to have respect toward
my fellow-men, to recognize these sew
eral gifts as from thee. Deliver me
from the diabolical sins of malice, envy
or jealousy, and give me hearty JOY in
my brothers. good, in his work, in his
gifts and talents, and may be truly
glad in his superiority to myself, if God
be glorified. Root out weak vanity, all
devilish pride, all that is abhorrent to
the mind of Christ. God, hear my
prayer. Grant me the wondrous Joy
of humility, which is seeing thee as all
in all.-Norman Mdcleod's Diary.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-13
Labor Organizations.

We print this week some literature
from the Boston Herald bearing on la
Dor organizations, and the interview
with one of the mechanics is pretty
plain, straightforward talk, and, to our
mind, so far as to statement of princi-
pies and effect, is gospel truth. The
effect of these unions is to remove the
stimulus to personal endeavor to attain
skill to become better and more rapid
workman, for they demand that the
SLOUGH, the lazy and Sinking workman,
shall receive the same pay as the faith
full, skilled, energetic workman. Take,
for instance, the strike of the painters
in Hartford. There the employers were
willing to pay from 1926 to $500 per
day, according to the mans work, but
the demand is that each man shall have
$3.50 per day, thus laying direct tax
of fifty cents per day on the good work
man for the support of the poor one.
What justice is there in this? How
would we farmers meet the demand
that every Farmland we hired should
receive the same wages, without regard
to his ability and faithfulness? We
reckon some of the farms would lie
fallow. Perhaps painters can afford to
work but nine hours. They certainly
can if they can compel somebody to pay
them twelve hours wages for nine hours
work. We cheerfully concede every
man his privilege of working or letting
it alone, as he chooses, if he asks nc
one to support him; but that men
should be compelled by force to lie idle
when they wish to work we do not be-